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She was called “The Stomping Mare.”
Hermine Braunsteiner, an Austrian woman who dreamed of being a nurse, instead became one of the most feared female guards in the Nazi camps. At Ravensbrück and Majdanek, she beat, whipped, and trampled prisoners to death — including women and children. Survivors remembered her boots, her cruelty, and her cold indifference. After the war she fled to America under a new name, but justice would find her decades later. Her story reveals how ordinary ambition turned into monstrous evil.

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“From Housekeeper to Killer: Hermine Braunsteiner’s Path to Hell”

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00:00At Majdanek, Braunsteiner showed her superiority towards the prisoners by treating them brutally
00:05and inhumanely, and she used every opportunity to harass and humiliate the woman.
00:11She became infamous for her wild rages and tantrums, and the woman at the camp described
00:15her as inhuman, cruel, brutal, sadistic, and causing frantic fear.
00:23Not only did she beat them, but also killed them by stomping on them with her steel-studded
00:27jackboots, which earned her the nickname, the Stomping Mare.
00:32Another Braunsteiner's specialty at Majdanek was whipping.
00:35She would whip several women, including those who were pregnant, to death.
00:40She was particularly notable for her cruel treatment of children, whom she saw as useless eaters.

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